A comparative clinical study on the transfer accuracy of conventional and digital implant impressions using a new reference key-based method.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to systematically compare the transfer accuracy of conventional and digital implant impressions in patients using a new reference key-based method.

Material And Methods: Thirty-nine cases were included in the study (upper jaw 22 edentulous, 8 partially edentulous, average distance between implants 30.15 ± 11.

Late ascended testes: is non-orthotopic gubernacular insertion a confirmation of an alternative embryological etiology?

Introduction: Re-ascended testes account for a proportion of all undescended testes (UDTs); one main hypothesis relating to their etiology relates to a patent processus vaginalis peritonei. The aim was to investigate gubernacular insertion points in boys with late ascended testis as a possible guide to an alternative embryological etiology.

Patients And Methods: Patients with proven ascended testes were recruited from four different pediatric urology centers between May 2016 and September 2017.

Treatment with Biologicals in Rheumatoid Arthritis: An Overview.

Management and therapy of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been revolutionized by the development and approval of the first biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) targeting tumor necrosis factor (TNF) α at the end of the last century. Today, numerous efficacious agents with different modes of action are available and achievement of clinical remission or, at least, low disease activity is the target of therapy. Early therapeutic interventions aiming at a defined goal of therapy (treat to target) are supposed to halt inflammation, improving symptoms and signs, and preserving structural integrity of the joints in RA.